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This paper develops strategic foundations for an important statistical model of random networks with heterogeneous expected degrees. Based on this, we show how social networking services that subtly alter the costs and indirect benefits of relationships can cause large changes in behavior and...
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network core do exhibit cross-sectional evidence of polarization and are responsible for the majority of tweets received …
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We introduce a simple two-stage game of endogenous network formation and information sharing for reasoning about the … then we study how the network design and the utility specifications affect welfare. Surprisingly, we find that in general … "babblers" or "friends", irrespective of whether the network is unilateral or bilateral, in equilibrium, targeted information …
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individuals through job moves over their career, we establish the dynamic co-worker network across firms of the entire ICT … that have diverse connections but are central to the network as well. We find that large firms benefit more from triadic … closure in the co-worker network, stressing the role cohesive relations in sharing complex knowledge. Our results highlight …
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Social connections that reach distant places are advantageous for individuals and firms by providing access to new skills and knowledge. However, systematic evidence on how firms work up global knowledge access is still missing. In this paper, we analyse how global work connections relate to...
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network of agents. In our model, agents are identically informed a priori and observe network neighbors’ actions as well as … observed payoffs and imitate observed actions. Our results also allow us to interpret critical mass and network brokerage …
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such structures. To this end, we applied the network approach to multiple theoretical constructs describing collective …
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This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...
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We develop a dynamic framework of strategic information transmission through cheap talk in a social network. Privately … their neighbors in the network. We first characterize myopic (best response) equilibria as well as fully informative myopic … equilibria, in particular if a social planner has designed the network optimally …
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